In a tweet, Tom Morello praised Macklemore’s new song “Hind’s Hall,” calling it “the most Rage Against The Machine song since Rage Against The Machine.” “Hind’s Hall” addresses the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, with Macklemore expressing his support for Palestine and donating all proceeds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Honestly @macklemore’s “Hind’s Hall” is the most Rage Against The Machine song since Rage Against The Machine.
https://x.com/tmorello/status/1787700561892221114
The last time Tim Commerford stood before a large audience, Rage Against the Machine was concluding their abbreviated 2022 reunion tour with a five-night stint at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In the 18 months since that final show, Commerford has gone off the grid—quite literally. He now resides in a mountaintop house in California, accessible only by a dirt road and completely independent of the electric grid. He powers everything with solar panels and accesses the Internet through Elon Musk’s Starlink.
This seclusion has allowed Commerford to channel his creative energy into his rock trio, 7D7D, which includes drummer Mathias Wakrat and guitarist Jonny Polonsky. The trio has released several politically charged songs over the past few months, has another 30 ready to go, and is planning their first tour. Commerford envisions this tour as the antithesis of a typical Rage Against the Machine arena and festival run. “I want to play at the fuckin’ bowling alley,” he says. “I want to play at coffee houses. I want to go out there and do this and not be the guy from Rage as much as I can be that.”
The origins of 7D7D trace back to Commerford’s days in Audioslave when producer Rick Rubin brought in Polonsky to tune guitars and set up the studio during the recording of “Out of Exile.” One day, the band returned from a lunch break to find Polonsky playing one of their unfinished songs on a piano. “He was playing it like Thelonious Monk,” Commerford recalls. “I was fuckin’ blown away by it. But [Chris] Cornell told Rick, ‘I can’t have him here. You have to make him leave.’ I think it just made him uncomfortable since we were just coming up with things, and somebody wasn’t just listening, but also figuring out how to play it before we’d even decided.”
Tom Morello also broke his silence on Rage Against The Machine’s future recently.
